Good book.

Death Benefits (2001) has a terrific premise.

A careful, methodical young data analyst for a California insurance company, John Walker knows when people will marry, at what age they will most likely have children, and when they will die.

All signs point to a long successful career—until Max Stillman, a gruff security consultant, appears without warning at the office.

It seems a colleague with whom Walker once had an affair has disappeared after paying a very large death benefit to an impostor.

Stillman wants to find and convict her; Walker is convinced the woman is innocent.

Now Walker teams up with Stillman on an urgent north-by-northeast race …

I enjoy learning about how skiptracers work and think.